Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
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The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.[2] It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night.
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Banner-tailed kangaroo rat | |
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Drawing by Louis Agassiz Fuertes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Heteromyidae |
Genus: | Dipodomys |
Species: | D. spectabilis |
Binomial name | |
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam, 1890 | |
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